Gompholobium glabratum at Clyde River Retreat

Dainty Wedge Pea at Clyde River Retreat

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	Gompholobium glabratum	22 Aug 2019	NicholasdeJong
	Unidentified	20 Aug 2019	ClydeRiver

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These flowers are a Gompholobium of some sort - I tend towards latifolium. Just beginning to flower now and all flowers are small (15mm?) and have 3 wedge shaped leaflets at the front. All examples I have seen here seem to be solitary. The stems twist around other plants.

8 comments

NicholasdeJong wrote:

21 Aug 2019

I think Gompholobium inconspicuum, that's if I can just see 3-foliolate leaves between the two flowers.

MikeLeggett wrote:

21 Aug 2019

Most inconspicuous!!

ClydeRiver wrote:

21 Aug 2019

I might pop up to them again today and take a closer look ... they are pretty shy there in the scrubby bush ...

ClydeRiver wrote:

22 Aug 2019

I have just updated with three more images of the same flowers. The leaves are clearly quite spiky and pea/pod like, almost like a heath plant ... hope they help!

NicholasdeJong wrote:

22 Aug 2019

With the proviso that the leaflets are all, or nearly all in groups of 3. If you see that this plant or others in the vicinity have groups of leaflets of 5 or 7, then G. glabratum. I don't think its G. minus: You could check with a hand lens to make sure the young stems are not bumpy (not tuberculate). If not bumpy, only hairy then G. minus.

BettyDonWood wrote:

22 Aug 2019

If you have a macro app on your mobile phone, that gives excellent closeups.

ClydeRiver wrote:

22 Aug 2019

No I haven't - we have no mobile reception here so I have never bothered with a fancy phone. Shall do my best with the camera, though with the strong wind here it might be a bit tricky!

ClydeRiver wrote:

22 Aug 2019

Leaflets are nearly all in groups of 5 or 7; stems are bumpy not hairy ... so Gompholobium Glabratum?

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